See, the whole issue with the fight so far was that it was fairly conservative. Samantha was many things - fairly lazy, for one. She preferred getting things done quickly if at all possible and go back to kind of dawdling about in a somewhat awkward fashion. So, in this case, a long and drawn out battle was beginning to work against her - she'd gotten in some pokes at the start, and now she was being weighed down quite literally by Camelia's semblance. So, she made a decision.

She had a fair amount of aura, and a helluva lot of built up charge. It would hurt like bugger, but...

Instead of making any major movement to get away or counter the attack, Samantha pulled herself forward towards her opponent with the chains, charging what she could into the sword to prepare for the next step. This lead to her hitting the floor in a fairly haphazard position as she placed her sword above her, Unity getting a fairly solid hit in on her as she let out a gasp from the hit to her side. Prismatic Performance blocked what Samantha could of the attack, but it was still a powerful gravity-enhanced blow. However, this also left the hilt of the weapon touching against her opponent directly. Focusing herself despite the pain at her side, she released the entirety of the built up sound into one singular point, creating a sudden loud booming noise and causing a powerful wave of force to blast outwards, aiming to send it directly into her opponent - she'd taken the hit to get into point-blank range for this, after all.

As her semblance activated and Unity came crashing down onto her opponent, Camelia was content with her strike - a fleeting emotion if there ever was one, as it disappeared the moment she noticed the chainblade's hilt touching her, right beneath Orion. It was too late to react.

A moment later, an incredibly powerful detonation occurred, sending Camelia flying into a nearby pillar and nearly - nearly - making her lose focus of her semblance, causing the field to flicker for an instant. Thankfully, she'd learned to manipulate momentum to her advantage while in freefall and was able to orient Orion towards the prograde direction, crashing right through an ice pillar before receiving herself with a rapid roll.

That HURT. A lot. But hey, good news! Wait, no, bad news. The enemy had gotten serious. Now, Cammie wasn't one to just take it - she'd give it her all too. Crouching behind her shield, she started charging a gravity well - right at the chain-squid's location, a sphere about a foot in diameter turning a dark purple around her waist.

Samantha took the few seconds of reprieve she got as the enemy was fired off into the air to recover from the heavy blow. Picking herself up to her feet, she shook her head to attempt to clear it from the light ringing - both the hit and the booming sound had left her a bit woozy for a moment - before levelling eyes on her opponent again. She still felt heavy under the effect of Camelia's semblance, and had to use her chains to support herself where she-

The fuck was that?

Tilting her head at the appearance of the ominous-looking orb being created, she considered for just a moment, before nodding. Nope.

"Nope." She stated, the chains all flying backwards and just attempting to drag herself as far away from whatever the hell that was as fast as possible. She'd rather brave the fire than that, honestly, but she still had some space on the battlefield to manoeuvre without resorting to that.

Good news! Her enemy was still under the effect of her semblance. Bad news; she had good instincts. Maybe Camelia was a bit too used to her semblance's preliminary signs? She even heard the girl say 'nope' before using all of her chains to slowly drag herself away.

Dammit. Her semblance was already really close to its maximum range and with how much she had to concentrate for a gravity well, she could only inch closer. It wasn't much, but it might just give her those few precious instants she needed. Once she had it going, it'd be her win.

And it was still glowing on her. Nope nope nope. Something about that thing felt way too ominous, especially the fact her opponent seemed to be focusing entirely on it.

Realising she needed a proper way to get back from the oncoming... thing, she frowned, then used up more of her precious little reserves of her semblance, filling it out into her longsword and focusing for a moment, dragging it against the floor before slicing forward and firing off a shockwave - launching her backwards, and an attack towards Camelia. It wasn't her strongest, but it would give her some distance and a distraction.

As she focused on the task at hand, Camelia was barely aware of her surroundings, save for the fact that she was slowly and steadily inching forward with as solid a stance as she could maintain while crouched behind Orion. She didn't have too long left, eith---

With a loud clang that briefly reverberated onto the frozen surroundings, the shield shielded its owner from a shockwave, her solid since helping to diffuse the impact. Incidentally, the wait was now over.

The purple sphere hovering in the air turned almost opaque and, with a roar, sent the local gravity haywire. Air rushed while the ice floor cracked and broke apart, shards of all shapes and sizes ripped out of it by the tidal forces. Everything close by was being dragged towards the epicenter. The closest pillar emitted a loud, cracking noise as its stability became severely compromised. All Camelia did was stop moving forward and hunker down under the cover of the large, circular metal assembly that was her rampart from unmitigated chaos.

Feeling a sudden burst of force pushing- no, pulling her towards the orb, Samantha cursed as the gravity well tried to yank her forwards, the backwards momentum of the shockwave from earlier being quickly overwhelmed. She'd managed to get a small distance from it with that last stunt, but damn if it didn't hurt just being near it. Snagging two chains far back s she could, the other two struggled against the purple ball's pull for a moment before following suite - but not before taking long enough for Samantha to get pelted with several pieces of ice, cursing to herself as she dragged herself more worse for wear away from the attack.

Further pieces of debris started flying around dangerously, so she criss-crossed two chains in front of her to try and protect herself from what she could. She would have rather kept some things a bit more hushed for later rounds, but her opponent really showed that they weren't playing around any more, and she shouldn't hold anything back either. She doubted her opponent could rush through... whatever that was, and she sure as hell wasn't getting anywhere near it again after the damage she took. Instead, she took the brief reprieve to activate her SCF, the faint hum of white dust within, and started loading charge into a palmed crystal of the same, removing it from its container.

Camelia briefly peeked out from behind Orion, just to check how everything was going. It took more than just a glance, though, since the amount of concentration she had to use to keep the well active was no joke. Hmm. Seemed like the enemy was definitely caught, at least.

With a resounding crack that reverberated throughout the ice section of the arena, enough that Camelia felt it in her feet, the pillar snapped close to its base and didn't just fall, but accelerated towards the cause of its toppling. After reaching speeds which, simply put, are just too damn high for something so large, it turned into several tons of ice shards in mere moments as the tidal forces shredded it apart, sending most of it back out as a uniform, spherical(ish) explosion of the entire pillar's worth in ice shrapnel.

(Ongoing gravity well, -20% if hit by the pillar on its way down, -however many % due to a wall of ice shrapnel)

Samantha may have had her hearing muted during the charging phase of her semblance, but once that pillar started falling she didn't need to hear it - it was large enough she simply felt the damn thing flying downwards. Having a little distance from it, she yelped loudly nonetheless, the two chains she was shielding with joined by one sword of Prismatic Performance in her spare hand as she tried to get distance from the pillar and slowly circle around the gravity well from where she was. Even so, at the speed it was going, chunks of ice flew out everywhere, some narrowly missing her and other shards hitting against her shield or the less protected parts of her body - at the very least, little broken-off pieces still stung when they hit, let alone the few larger bits that got through.

Frustrated now at the well and all the issues it was causing, she took a second to re-focus, taking a deep breath and just throwing more of her dwindling energy into her semblance's charging of the dust crystal in her hands. She didn't have much aura or, honestly, stamina left at this point; the sudden intensity had started to wear out on her, and according to the monitors on her opponent as well. In this situation, one good hit would probably mean winning or losing, and despite her normal lazy attitude this fight had really got her blood pumping; she was enjoying it, and she wanted to win it.

Weathering the - quite literal - ice storm without much effort, Camelia peeked from behind her shield again. Damn. The match hadn't stopped and her opponent was still hanging on (presumably) for dear life. This called for some more... involved measures.

For the first few instants, nothing changed. After about half a second, the well slowly accelerated, although all that could be seen was that the raging ball of ice shards, chunks and other partially lethal paraphernalia was moving; the well itself was obscured. Nevertheless, it began making steady progress towards Camelia's target, closing in the gap at the blistering speed of half a foot a second, ripping up more of the floor as its tidal forces pulled on undamaged portions. Still concentrating, she began preparing to launch it towards the enemy if they made an escape attempt.

'Yea, no.' Samantha thought, eyes widening as the storm of gravity started crawling towards her. Now the storm of shards weren't so thick, and she'd bought herself a little distance from the vortex, she moved one of the spare chains backward, then tugging herself away from the... thing. She then repeated the action with the other chains, moving a little like a spider away from it - if a spider had drunk a human-sized portion of vodka, maybe, but still moving away from it. More importantly, she was circling around it; trying to get out of the direct line of fire from the storm, and into direct line of fire to Camelia. She'd still have the shield to block anything, which was an issue, but at least she'd stand a chance that way.

Watching her opponent, Camelia saw that she stopped using her chains as a shield in order to have a better... uh, traction? What surprised her, however, was that the enemy managed to, excruciatingly slowly, move out of the way of her gravity well and was in the process of circling around it. As impressive as it was to resist the pull, no. No, you were not. Camelia promptly enacted her contingency plan in the event of a successful(result pending) escape attempt and the gravity well suddenly shot forward right towards the chain wielder, dragging a slew of broken ice behind itself.

Camelia took a deep breath almost out of reflex, the strain and concentration necessary for maintaining the well gone.

There wasn't really much time for thought. There wasn't any way she could block the attacks Camelia was using, and she couldn't just dodge at the speed it was going - not normally. The meagre dregs of her semblance wouldn't be able to provide a large enough boost, either, even using all of what remained. So she reacted on instinct, instead.

The crystal in her hand glowed for a moment before she released the held charge beneath and in-front of her, a momentary feeling of power coursing through her hands before a kinetically amplified beam of sound shot out in that same direction, firing her upwards and away from the well. The whiplash certainly stung as she was shot back just enough to get out of the radius, and then some - coming to rest on the ceiling forcefield of all things, letting out a rush of breath as she pressed against it - but the beam slammed into the ground in front of where she'd been, swivelling forwards towards Camelia as Samantha had released the built-up energy to get herself away. The beam itself would only scrape her, most of the force used to shove herself away from the speeding deathtrap; but what would hit her was all the ice and rocks that had been built up in the well, along with a good chunk of the disturbed ground where the gravity well had made its path towards her, all shot out in a wave of sound, rubble and ice towards the other woman.

Damn, that had worked better that she'd hoped, even if the beam didn't hit with the full force and instead fired slower chunks. Now, why was she feeling all woozy, and where was the floor?

Quite honestly, Camelia didn't think dodging her well was feasible at such ranges. Unless you took drastic measures, like using a suitable semblance to propel yourself out of the way or something equally extreme, as just attempting to move out of the way normally would get you nowhere but within the well's pull real quick-like. Turns out, she was right. but also wrong, as her enemy shot out a beam of shockwave directly underneath herself, rocketing upwards as the ground below erupted into a mix of ice, rock and debris.

A fair portion of the ejecta immediately turned towards the well as it whizzed past, replacing the stuff that'd been previously trailing it but whose motions were disrupted by the boom. The rest of the flying dirt, rocks and ice surged preferentially towards Camelia in a veritable tidal wave of due brown with grey spots. She barely had the time to turn Orion into its secondary form and fire off a shockwave of its own before it reached her. The shockwave sent out by the shield managed to either stop dead or push back most of what it encountered, but the parts of the wave closest to her and slightly to the sides being outside of its range, they continued unhindered, pummeling her as they came to a gradual halt.

Samantha gave a brief shake of her head, feeling her body suddenly get a lot lighter. All the blood had... rushed to her head, or was it her toes, or, what was that thing called. All she remembered was having to dodge the well, or it would have broken her aura, and then her body. She had already felt what it did from just being near it...

Frowning, she tried to bring up her control of the sounds around her, using her echolocation to map her way around. Everything just seemed to fuzzy and out of focus, really. All she could really her was the woosh of air, and-

There was a thump and an off-sounding crack from the opposite end of the arena to Camelia.